April 7, 2005
ALBANY DETOUR FOR AG: MCCALL
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT do you call a Democratic politician who aspires to higher office but picks a fight with Goldman Sachs? First you call him a fool. Then, a loser. Eliot Spitzer...
AOL SAYS: YOU'VE GOT PHONE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amAmerica Online will begin offering telephone service today, becoming the latest to offer the cheap service that is threatening the business of traditional phone companies. Time Warner's AOL will initially...
NINTENDO TO PLAY ROCK CTR.
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMidtown is about to get another giant destination store. Nintendo said yesterday it will open its first company retail shop later this spring - a two-story complex in Rockefeller Center...
INVESTORS JEER JIMMY'S LATEST ADELPHIA BID
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision continues to keep Wall Street guessing. Shares in the Long Island cable giant sank yesterday after it emerged the company had put in a surprise $16.5 billion all-cash bid...
MORGAN MELEE - BANK TURNS TO MERGER ACE TO HELP THWART REVOLT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amPhil Purcell is sweating over his job running Morgan Stanley - and has hired ace lawyer Marty Lipton to help him and his board find a way out of a...
BUDGET LIVING LOSES LAUNCH EDITOR MILLER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amSarah Gray Miller, the award-winning launch editor of Budget Living, has resigned suddenly. She told her stunned staff she would stay around until mid-May. Calls to Miller at the office...
TWO NEW CELEB MAGS SET
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amTwo more magazines will be trying to carve out a slice of the celebrity market in mid-April. Inside TV, which is being spawned from TV Guide, just tapped its first...
PERELMAN: MORGAN STANLEY HID 'FRAUD'
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amEven shrewd billionaire Ron Perelman got tricked by Morgan Stanley's bankers with their "carefully crafted and cleverly concealed fraud," a court was told yesterday. Perelman is suing the embattled Wall...
MARTHA LIVING TAPS OUTSIDER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amIn the first major personnel move since Martha Stewart got out of jail, her company yesterday hired a new publisher for its embattled flagship magazine. Sally Preston, the former publisher...
$29M PAYBACK - EX-STAFFER 'SCORES' AGAINST UBS IN BIAS SUIT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWronged Wall Street broker Laura Zubulake won $29.3 million yesterday against her old boss UBS for sex discrimination - but says she just wants to go back to work. After...
STARR REPORT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amRockin' in prime time The dearth of variety shows is forcing rock bands of all stripes to find alternative ways to get the word out on TV - and the...
'VIEW' GO GIRL
April 7, 2005 | 4:00am'THE View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck gave birth to a baby girl yesterday. The baby, whose name will be revealed on today's show (11 a.m./Ch. 7), was born on her father's...
DEAD 'LOST' - THEY REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME: BOONE IS GONE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE actor who plays Boone, killed off on last night's "Lost," isn't happy about becoming the first casualty on one of TV's hottest new shows. "Pretty devastating," Ian Somerhalder tells...
LITTLE BRITNEY - 13-YEAR-OLD JAMIE LYNN ADORES OLDER SISTER BUT IS NOTHING LIKE POP TART
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amBRITNEY Spears' upcoming UPN reality show is causing a stir - but it is Britney's little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, who is the family's real TV star. Practially overnight, 13-year-old...
BIG BARK, LITTLE BITE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWITH Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol having already blazed a trail out of Scotland, it's no surprise that another Glasgow band is ready to bow on the world stage. At...
BRUCE ON LOOSE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Boss is back. Leaving the E Street Band behind, Bruce Springsteen will go solo for a spring tour in support of his upcoming album, "Devils & Dust." Performing in...
IN REALITY, BURLESQUE ISN'T VERY SEXY
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amJUST when you think that there can't be anyone left without their own reality show, along comes "Forty Deuce" to prove you wrong. Yes, apparently, there are still a few...
NIKKO'S NIXED BY BY 'IDOL' VOTERS
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amIT WAS "Broadway Week" on "American Idol" - with the curtain dropping last night on Nikko Smith. Smith's departure leaves only eight remaining contestants on the Fox reality show. Smith,...
SHE'S GOT 'IT' - PAGE SIX'S PAULA FROELICH TELLS YOU HOW TO GET IT, TOO; 'IT' COULD HAPPEN TO YOU ... IF YOU FOLLOW PAULA'S 10 TIPS TO GET TO THE TOP
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Post's hot scribe reveals the secrets of therich and famous in her new book, out April 20. We've got a sneak peek. ADMIT it. You have at least once...
CLUB DREAD - HOT-SPOT OWNERS PLEASE ALL BUT THEMSELVES
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amEVERYONE, it seems, wants to be friends with Richie Akiva. And Richie Akiva wants to be friends with everyone. Akiva, with business partner Scott Sartiano, owns downtown hot spot Butter....
PROF. BELLOW'S PLANET
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE world knew Saul Bellow, who died on Tuesday two months shy of his 90th birthday, as the most distinguished American writer of the second half of the 20th century....
CITY'S CHAOS FRIGHTENING & THRILLING
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amROME - So close. Johanna O'Connell, visiting the Eternal City from Maryland, stepped toward a subway train near the Vatican when a force far greater than her slim body swept...
GROUND ZERO: GROUND TO A HALT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00am'NIGHTMARE." "Maelstrom." Such is how Downtown power players increasingly describe the status of Ground Zero. While all eyes were turned to the fight over the West Side stadium, redevelopment at...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amLisa Tonks had long forgotten about the wallet she'd lost 20 years ago at Yellowstone National Park containing $177 and her Social Security card - until it arrived at her...
BOOZE BAD FOR NEW MOMS' MILK
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amDrinking even small amounts of alcohol cuts the amount of milk new moms produce and adversely affects breast-feeding, a new study reveals. Researchers found that just one or two glasses...
JETS IN SCHOOL FOR 'CLASS' ACTION
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amFormer New York Jets great Freeman McNeil and club President Jay Cross teamed up yesterday and used the "principal-for-a-day" program to tout their dream for a West Side stadium to...
MIKE TO POLS: OK STADIUM NOW
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amEnmeshed in a high-stakes game of beat the clock, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday called on state leaders to ignore a lawsuit by Cablevision and quickly approve the hotly disputed plan for...
COPS' SECURITY CHALLENGE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Italian authorities are working feverishly to meet one of history's greatest security challenges as President Bush, 200 world leaders and as many as 4 million pilgrims descend on...
APPLE REFLECTS ENTIRE 'COUNTRY'
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amCountry music fans will be seeing New York City featured in industry ads, calendars and performances by some of its biggest stars. It's all part of a new deal announced...
RICE: DON'T RAZE GAZA
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Bush administration raised a new issue with Israel yesterday ahead of next week's visit by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, by criticizing proposals to destroy the empty homes...
MAN DISCOVERED STRANGLED IN QNS.
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA young man was found strangled and stuffed inside a garbage bag yesterday in Queens, authorities said. Cops were on routine patrol at about 1 a.m. when they discovered the...
HOLE LOT OF SUBWAY TROUBLE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA survey of subway tunnels has uncovered three more holes like the one that allowed water to short-circuit crucial cables and disrupt service last month on the Lexington Avenue line....
CITY WORKERS SCAMMED WELFARE: COPS
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amFour city employees - including a correction officer - were charged yesterday with ripping off the welfare system for more than $130,000 by creating dozens of phony housing accounts. Officials...
'SORRY' LANCE RIDES IN AS N.Y. SPOKES-MAN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWelcome back, Lance! After putting his wheel in his mouth and telling French reporters that Paris deserves to host the 2012 Olympics, six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will...
SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION HONCHO GETS THE AX
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the highest-ranking officials at the School Construction Authority was fired last week after a run-in with its president The Post has learned. Dan Reddan, the SCA's vice president...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - WIFE HAILS HERO HUBBY AT HIS GRAVE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe widow of the nation's first Medal of Honor recipient in the war on terror yesterday shared the very private moment in which she honored her fallen hero husband. The...
BAILED MOBSTER BUSTED AGAIN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected Genovese family associate - who was free on bail pending trial in an alleged horse-doping and illegal sports-betting ring - was busted again yesterday for trying to extort...
FDNY SETTLES RACE SUIT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe city has settled a discrimination suit filed by a black Fire Department employee who claimed he was denied a promotion and punished because of his race, The Post has...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man was shot in the head and critically wounded in an East Harlem building, cops said yesterday. The 23-year-old, whose name was not disclosed, was found in...
WINNERS TO NEWS: PAY UP ALREADY
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amYou News, you lose. So said dozens of angry Scratch n' Stiff victims who took their million-dollar fight to the door of the Daily News yesterday and demanded that the...
ELEVATOR MOO GOO GUY RAN - HIDES FROM IMMIGRATION
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Chinese food deliveryman who was trapped for 3 ½ days in an elevator went into hiding yesterday - fearing his newfound fame may get him in hot-and-sour soup with...
STOOLS FOOL SOX - N.Y. FACTORY STICKS IT TO FENWAY
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amHey, Red Sox fans: Have a seat! Workers at a Hudson Valley furniture maker got in a good-natured jab at the Red Sox Nation this week by delivering 72 custom-made...
MOBY-HICKS FLOCK TO HAMPTONS - THOUSANDS COME TO GAWK AT BEACHED WHALE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe gigantic fin whale that washed up on a Hamptons beach has bizarrely turned into the East End's new top tourist attraction. Celebrities, locals and out-of-towners are flocking to the...
DRIVER DIES AS LIE RIGS COLLIDE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amTwo tractor-trailers collided on the Long Island Expressway in Queens yesterday after one of the drivers suffered an apparent heart attack behind the wheel and died, authorities said. The accident...
N.Y. CHEFS ARE CRÈME DE LA CRÈME
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amNew York chefs are cooking this year: They dominate the nominations for the James Beard awards, the Oscars of the restaurant world. Nominees announced yesterday by the James Beard foundation...
HEROES' SALUTE - HAIL POST READERS FOR GIFT OF HALF A MIL
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe families of the firefighters killed on "Black Sunday," and the FDNY's survivors of that tragic day, turned out yesterday to thank Post readers for their astonishing generosity - as...
SPITZER USED AIG PROBE TO 'NET $$
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's campaign for governor has been using his high-profile investigation of insurance giant American International Group to raise funds and build political support via...
JEWELERS SUE OVER PLAZA PLAN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amEloise might not have to pack her bags just yet. A pair of high-end jewelry stores filed suit to block The Plaza hotel from going condo for at least four...
TRAIN LOCO GETS PRISON IN THEFT BID
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amIt was the end of the line for great train robber Darius McCollum, who was sentenced by a Queens judge yesterday to up to three years in prison. McCollum, 39,...
KAYAKER'S DESPERATE PADDLE TO SAVE MAN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA heroic ex-lifeguard enjoying a spring day at his Long Island home paddled his kayak a quarter mile to save a drowning man. But he was unable to save a...
JENNINGS' WOES MAKE SMOKERS THINK AGAIN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA raspy-voiced Peter Jennings going public with his lung cancer battle may be the "last straw" that spurs some smokers to kick the habit, experts say. "I think there will...
ELIOT: ON-TIME BUDGET OFF MARK
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The much-ballyhooed on-time state budget fails to address many important issues, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer charged yesterday. Spitzer, the all-but-certain Democratic gubernatorial candidate next year, poured cold water...
PRINCETON STUDENT A MATH 'WHIZ'
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amPrinceton University math whiz Michael Lohman had a creepy sexual secret, cops say. For three years, the married grad student quietly terrorized Asian women on campus by clipping snippets of...
'ROUGH SEX' IS DEFENSE IN KIDNAP
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe "rough sex" defense reared its ugly head in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, on Day Two of an already-ugly kidnap trial. Jurors listened intently as the lawyer for the defendant...
HILL 'CENTER' OF ATTENTION
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of the nation's top pollsters has created a new "Hillary Meter" to measure Sen. Clinton's move to the political center for a 2008 White House run -...
BOSTON SKIPPER IN HOSP WITH CHEST PAINS
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amBoston Red Sox manager Terry Francona was rushed to a hospital from Yankee Stadium yesterday morning after complaining of chest tightness, just hours before his team beat the Bronx Bombers....
BERGER ESCAPES LIAR FRYER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMEMO to Martha Stewart: Next time, save your lies for reporters. Sticky-fingered Clinton aide Sandy Berger got off a lot easier than Miss Martha - no time in the pokey...
'HOOD THAT GOV'T FORGOT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amFOR a taste of how contemptuously City Hall and Albany regard Lower Manhattan, stroll al most anywhere near Ground Zero. Despite some worthy cosmetic improvements, like better street lights on...
JOHNNIE & O.J.'S 'REUNION' - OLD CLIENT CUTS A SHARP FIGURE AT STAR-FILLED RITES
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe funeral of lawyer Johnnie Cochran yesterday turned into L.A.'s celebrity event of the year, as thousands of friends, stars and pols packed the West Los Angeles Cathedral to say...
PRINCE CHARMING - FUNERAL FOR MONACO'S RAINIER WILL BE AT CHURCH WHERE HE MADE GRACE HIS PRINCESS
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA funeral for Prince Rainier of Monaco will be held next week at the same 19th-century cathedral where he turned Hollywood queen Grace Kelly into his princess in a fairy-tale...
'ECSTATIC' OVER TWIN WIN - MODEL MOM RELISHES REUNION
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amShe's been through a year of hell, but now Bridget Marks can't stop smiling. "I'm ecstatic. I'm so happy. I'm so happy to have the girls home safe and sound,"...
EVIL PARK THUG MUGS MOM, BABY - POINTED GUN AT 3-MONTH-OLD BOY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA heartless thug robbed a woman - pointing his gun at her 3-month-old boy - in broad daylight in Central Park yesterday morning as dozens of New Yorkers were enjoying...
LUCKY 'CHAP' SAVED - LIP BALM CHEATS BULLET
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA dropped ChapStick saved the life of a Brooklyn medical worker yesterday - when he bent over to retrieve the fumbled lip balm and ducked a bullet that ripped through...
COPS BUST HARLEM DRUG GANG
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amInvestigators have shut down another major uptown drug gang - but for Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, this case was personal. The gang, M-$et, was dealing drugs in and around the...
GALA BUCKS HELP GARDEN GROW
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amSome notable New Yorkers raised a lot of green last night to help keep a city garden healthy for years to come. The Heather Garden Trust, which preserves a public...
WIDOW'S SALUTE - 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,' SHE TELLS HERO HUBBY
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe widow of the nation's first Medal of Honor recipient in the war on terror yesterday shared the very private moment in which she honored her fallen hero husband. The...
FUNNY MONEY BUSTS - $10M VIA VIDEO STORE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA family of Uzbek immigrants was collared yesterday for funneling nearly $10 million in funny money through their Queens video store, police said. Yakub Yusupov, 44, and his sons Eduard,...
STABBING NEAR LIRR STATION
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amA woman who was stabbed and critically wounded with a hunting knife staggered out of the woods near the Massapequa train station yesterday afternoon - followed by her ranting boyfriend,...
RAZING A POINT - RICE: DON'T DESTROY GAZA HOMES
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Bush administration raised a new issue with Israel yesterday ahead of next week's visit by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, by criticizing proposals to destroy the empty homes...
NO WHERE TO GO BUT UP
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amFrom the pyramids of Egypt to the Twin Towers, we love tall buildings, Read about these architectural marvels that define the New York skyline. BY the early 1900s, Manhattan was...
NETS TREAT KNICKS LIKE A NO. 2
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amPromise made. When Jason Kidd arrived in New Jersey before the 2001-02 season, he told anyone who would listen that the Nets "won't be No. 2 for long" in the...
SAME OLD METS - START 0-2 AS GLAVINE FAILS
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amReds 9 - Mets 5 CINCINNATI - Lose today, and they'll be off to their worst start in 41 years. How 'bout those New Mets? They dropped another one last...
METS' PEN AS BAD AS EXPECTED
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - OK, I've seen enough. After only two games, as feared, it is the Bullpen From Hell and if things don't change, this pen will destroy the Mets. There...
PEDRO: SOX CAN KEEP RING
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amHe left Boston as a World Series champion, but Pedro Martinez didn't leave on good terms. Still upset with how management handled his free-agent courtship, the new Mets ace gave...
SCALABRINE STEPS INTO STARTING SPOT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES As Brian Scalabrine headed to the bench for the final time Tuesday, he looked up at the clock which showed 3:59 to play. "Hmm, usually this is my...
BATTLE RAGING OVER SLOT POT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amWith latest VLT bill awaiting Gov. Pataki's signature, NYRA is at odds with New York horsemen and breeders over divvying up slots revenue. "The horsemen are very upset," according to...
BRONX CHEER BACK AT YA
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amSHAME on you, if you were a member of the leather-lunged brigade of blowhards who stood up at Yankee Stadium yesterday, just as the big Armitron clock clicked to 4:13...
GLAVINE TRYING TO ACE TEST
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - There is a new sense of calm around the Mets. The reason for that is starting pitching. With Pedro Martinez taking the lead role, life is a little...
COME SUNDAY, IT'S TIGER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The threat of a daylong downpour today could turn the opening round of the 69th Masters into a torrential test of survival. "I just hope somehow we get...
KNICKS IN SORRY ROLE OF SPOILER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMired in a seven-game slide, and with seemingly little to play for, the Knicks have a chance to put a serious dent in the Nets' playoff push tonight at 7:30...
CAMERON CAN'T - WRIST INJURY KEEPS RF ON METS BENCH
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - The Mets' first game at home this Monday might be Mike Cameron's first game, period. The Mets played their second game of the season last night, but Cameron,...
BIG FOUR ALL SHOOTING AT TOP RANKING
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - The No. 1 spot in the World Golf Rankings is hanging in the balance. Vijay Singh, the current No. 1, can be unseated by Tiger Woods if...
BAYLOR TITLE GOOD FOR WOMEN'S GAME
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - For the first time since 1993, two schools that had never been to a women's Final Four met in this year's championship game. And the joy Tuesday night...
JETER'S OK AFTER BEANING
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES A CT-Scan done on Derek Jeter's head yesterday didn't reveal a problem for the Yankees' captain, who was drilled in the head by a Mike Timlin fastball in...
ISHII: I'M READY FOR METS DEBUT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Kaz Ishii said he's feeling the expectations before his first Mets start. But he said he believes that's a good thing. "I feel a little pressure,...
SOX RALLY TO ELUDE BROOM
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amEven though they're the defending World Series champions, the era of good feeling wouldn't have lasted much longer had the Red Sox been swept by the Yankees yesterday. In fact,...
CAMERON SITS OUT ANOTHER
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - The Mets' first home game Monday may end up being Mike Cameron's first game, period. The Mets right fielder, who is bothered by left wrist tendinitis,...
TINO'S HOMER SOFTENS DEFEAT
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amIf there were a silver lining in the dark cloud that hung over the Stadium yesterday, an afternoon that included a bean ball, blown save and a Boston victory, it...
AGAINST BEANTOWN - A-ROD'S LOOKIN' LIKE MR. MAYBE
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amDEREK Jeter grew up idolizing Dave Winfield, but it is Alex Rodriguez who just might end up resembling him. It is still too early in A-Rod's Yankee stay and he...
MO'S WOES GROWING - BOSOX ROUGH UP SHAKY RIVERA AGAIN
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amRed Sox 7 - Yankees 3 Across the past eight seasons Mariano Rivera has been kryptonite for the Yankees. Opposing hitters feared him the way Superman approached the green rocks...
ERNIE'S TURN - TIME FOR ELS TO BUTTON UP GREEN JACKET
April 7, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The gods at Augusta National work in compelling and mysterious ways. Every year here as the azaleas burst into full bloom, the Green Jackets are dusted off from...